The Internet is too important to be this fragile
After SEA hacking of Twitter and NYTimes DNS, imagine if the DNS Root Name Servers were ever hacked ?
Scary thought and very unlikely but the worldwide consequences on worldwide economy, media, communication, safety and health are hard to grasp.
One could redirect or take down every domain name at once.
The probability of this hack is lower since the introduction of distributed “anycast” clusters for most root servers. In the early days of the internet, these DNS root servers were in unsecured cabinets in various US universities.
Read more about Root Servers :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_Backbone_DDoS_Attacks
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